The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 98 or 98?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 98?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|98| = ?
The absolute value of 98 is the distance between 98 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 98:
Since the distance between 98 and 0 on a number line is 98, we get the answer as follows:
|98| = 98
Note that the absolute value of 98 can also be written as abs(98) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 99
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